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Dear friend,
Thanks to your calls and letters, the U.S. Justice Department is now
investigating four prisons in Mississippi, including the state
penitentiary at Parchman. Sadly, the miserable conditions that gave
rise to the investigation are not getting any better. We recently
learned that the 19th person in the past two months has died in
Parchman.
We need you to stay in the fight. We know Parchman cannot be salvaged,
so we are asking you to sign our
petition demanding that Parchman be closed for good:
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We also want to make sure Mississippi's other prisons are fixed for
good. We are supporting a bill to create an independent oversight body
that will have the authority to investigate and report on any problems
in the state's prisons. We know the prison system won't fix
itself, and that's why we need an independent office to do it.
We've also learned more about the terrible conditions at Coleman
federal prison in Florida. Two dozen women have now been diagnosed
with Legionnaire's disease, a dangerous form of pneumonia. Last
December, 14 women from Coleman filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of
Prisons (BOP), alleging sexual assault and abuse at the hands of
corrections officers.
Such problems are sadly not unique to Parchman or Coleman. We are
talking to affected families about what they are seeing and hearing
from their loved ones in federal prison. We also are talking to
members of Congress about the need for oversight at the federal level.
If you've heard anything about prison conditions from a loved one,
please contact us here:
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We cannot leave people in prison and their families at home in the
dark. We must shine a light on the abuse and mistreatment taking place
and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Thanks,
Kevin Ring
President, FAMM
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